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Saleema Nawaz is the author of the short story collection Mother Superior and the novel Bone and Bread, which won the 2013 Quebec Writers’ Federation Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in many Canadian literary journals, and her short story “My Three Girls,” won the 2008 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize.

Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Saleema completed a Bachelor of Humanities at Carleton University and an M.A. in English Literature at the University of Manitoba, where her novella “The White Dress” was awarded the inaugural Robert Kroetsch Prize for Best Creative Thesis.

She currently lives and writes in Montreal, Quebec.
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Average rating: 3.71 · 5,117 ratings · 746 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bone & Bread 3.60 avg rating — 2,715 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs for the End of the World 3.82 avg rating — 2,238 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood by Kerry Clare (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather Birrell (Goodreads Author), Julie Booker 4.15 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Superior 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songs for the End of the World: A Novel by Saleema Nawaz (Goodreads Author), Alex Paxton-Beesley (Narrator), Amelia Sargisson (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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imagiNation 2018 in Quebec City

This past Saturday I travelled to Quebec City for the imagiNation Writers' Festival.

I love reading and working and sleeping on the train, and I brought an overstuffed purse filled with more podcasts, albums, books, games, pens and notebooks than I could have used in 16 hours. But Quebec City is only three hours away, so after some reading and a nap, I got there in time for dinner with good fr Read more of this blog post »

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“Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.”
― Saleema Nawaz, Bone & Bread

tags: growing-up, pretending

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“At least with divine law, you can be sure of mercy.”
― Saleema Nawaz, Songs for the End of the World

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“People half shouted now, to be hear through their masks, though it wasn't usually necessary.”
― Saleema Nawaz, Songs for the End of the World

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